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Rumors of the next generation iPhone are coming together as images of leaked parts are shared across the Internet and fake iPhone mockups are produced based on those parts. It seems another part has been leaked – the supposed front bezel of the next generation iPhone, which features a centered FaceTime camera in contrast to the iPhone 4 and iPhone 4S’ FaceTime camera which is in a straight line with the
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Here are the best jailbreak creations for the week of July 9th until today, July 15th as per the opinion of our staff. This is a weekly recap.

1. Check - FREE

Check is a great new jailbreak tweak by iOS developers Joshua Tucker and iKy1e. The tweak allows you to easily select more than one of your e-mails from the inbox without having to select each and every one of them individually. The tweak allows you to hold down on a message for a couple of seconds and then tap
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If you’re a hardcore Twitter user, then you’re going to love this giveaway. We’re teaming up with iOS developer Moeseth to give away five licenses each of two of Moeseth’s most popular jailbreak tweaks for Twitter – TwitkaFly, a $1.99 value, and Infinite Tweet, a 99˘ value. That's a total of ten jailbreak tweak licenses. Both tweaks enhance the user’s ability to interact with Twitter and the people they follow. They also come with a ton of options for the user to configure so that you get the best experience possible by making the tweaks function the way you want them to.

One of our long-time favorite jailbreak tweaks for iOS has been updated today with support for the iPad – Dashboard for Maps by iOS developer Evan Coleman brings you a speedometer, compass, and altimeter right to the Maps application and it overlays the map nicely. Being that the tweak worked so well for the iPhone, Coleman states that it only "seemed natural" to bring it to the iPad as well. It works just as well on the iPad
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In iOS, you have to open applications to perform actions that correspond to the action you want to do. This isn’t exactly convenient, so iOS developer VincenzoBB has created a jailbreak tweak called HomeCourts that can be used to quickly perform specific tasks by invoking of an Activator action of your choice.

The interface, shown above, appears after you invoke the Activator action you choose for the tweak. HomeCourts looks like a stack of iOS 5 banners, one
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This week, finding the prettiest theme was difficult, but we're handing the medal to SENSES HD by .:Jimmy:. because it's a very complete theme and it looks (and sounds) stunning.

SENSES HD is hosted in the ModMyi repository for a cost of $2.99. SENSES HD is a WinterBoard theme that changes more than just looks, but system sounds too. The look of the theme is gorgeous and it themes so many aspects of iOS that it’s hard to list them all. Notable
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Just how popular are iPhones and iPads? They're even big sellers in places where they aren't legally sold.

According to a new report published Friday, more than one hundred retail outlets in the nation of Iran - where strict U.S. sanctions prohibit U.S. computer products from entering the country - now sell iPhones, iPads, iPods, and even Apple computers out in the open.

A Russian hacker has successfully figured out a method to obtain in-app purchases from iOS apps for free.

The “in-app proxy” method is simple, doesn’t require a jailbreak, and allows users to install in-app content for free. The hack works on all iOS devices 3.0-6.0. We do not condone the stealing of content in any form, and this story, like the 9to5Mac piece, is being written to alert the developer community. The hack is already
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A new report from the market analytics firm, Nielsen, found Android’s U.S. growth to outpace Apple’s iOS as smartphones accounted for two thirds of all new wireless phone purchases for the first time ever. According to the report, the growth of smartphone penetration in the U.S. continued in the second quarter of 2012 as 54.9% of mobile users owned a smart device at the end of June.

iOS is very good at showing us the date and time. The date is included on the lock screen and also from the home screen on the Calendar application’s icon. The time is always shown on the lock screen and from the status bar. However, a new free tweak comes to the table called TimeSpeak by iOS developer Mathieu Bolard and it allows you to have your device tell you what the date and time is using Siri’s voice.

NBC recently announced that it will be streaming all 302 medal events from the 2012 Summer Olympics in London to U.S. viewers via an iPhone and iPad app. The events will be streamed real time for everyone to watch, with a planned 3,500 hours of event coverage being streamed to both desktop and mobile viewers. That makes this year’s Olympics coverage the most internet-friendly in history.